Los Angeles of 1967 is only 2 years after the Watts Riots and in the midst of the Vietnam War. Street violence, curfews, counterculture, anti-Establishment protest, hippies, riots and tear gas, sit-ins, illegal drugs (and those yet to be scheduled), free love, anarchy and a deep, abiding hatred of "pigs" were a few of the issues faced by fictitional Detective Sam Hodiak and the harried LAPD. Then, in March, Charles Milles Manson was paroled from jail for the very last time to enjoy a reign of terror that has not been equaled in the annals of American crime.
—LA-Lawyer